Package: jwhois Version: 4.0-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer, I looked up an abuse address for 192.254.239.154 and found supp...@websitewelcome.com. The mail bounced. I thought I'd report invalid WHOIS data, but instead report this. Because ARIN's web page returned a valid, different email address. How come?
My guess is that nowadays they use WhoisRWS, which, as I understand it, is RDAP using XML rather than JSON. Apparently, they consider WHOIS so disused that they don't bother removing a redirection pointing to an outdated WHOIS server at websitewelcome.com. This whishlist entry asks that jwhois makes RDAP queries and falls back to WHOIS for legacy servers only, so as to make the transition smooth. Alternatively, jwhois could stick to the WHOIS protocol; in this case an outstanding warning should appear in its man page. Thank you Ale -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages jwhois depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dpkg 1.17.26 ii install-info 5.2.0.dfsg.1-6 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-13.1 Versions of packages jwhois recommends: ii lynx 2.8.9dev1-2+deb8u1 jwhois suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
